Thomas Levy, Thomas Higham

The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating (eBook, ePUB)

Archaeology, Text and Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title brings together a leading team of archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical scholars, radiocarbon dating specialists and other researchers who have embraced radiocarbon dating as a significant tool to test hypotheses concerning the historicity of aspects of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317491507
• Artikelnr.: 42009792

Autorenporträt

Thomas Levy, Thomas Higham

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; I. Introduction to the Problems; 1) Radiocarbon Dating and the
Iron Age of the Southern Levant: Problems and Potentials for the Oxford
Conference - Thomas E. Levy and Thomas Higham; 2) The Debate over the
Chronology of the Iron Age in the Southern Levant: Its History, the Current
Situation, and a Suggested Resolution - Amihai Mazar; 3) The Low
Chronology: Archaeology, History and Bible - Israel Finkelstein; 4)
Shishak, King of Egypt: The challenges of Egyptian calendrical chronology -
Andrew Shortland; II. Some Methodological Issues; 5) Improving the
Resolution of Radiocarbon Dating by Statistical Analysis - Christopher
Bronk Ramsey; 6) The Early Iron Age Dating Project: Introduction,
Methodology, Progress Report and an Update on the Tel Dor Radiometric Dates
- Ilan Sharon, Ayelet Gilboa, Elisabetta Boaretto and A.J. Timothy Jull;
III. Jordan in the Iron Age; 7) Lowland Edom and the High and Low
Chronologies: Edomite State Formation, the Bible and Recent Archaeological
Research in Southern Jordan - Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, Johannes van
der Plicht, Thomas Higham, and Hendrik J. Bruins; 8) Radiocarbon dating of
the Khirbat-en Nahas site (Jordan) and Bayesian Modelling of the Results -
Thomas Higham, Johannes van der Plicht, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Hendrik
J. Bruins, Mark Robinson, and Thomas E. Levy; 9) Mesha, the Mishor and the
Chronology of Iron Age M DAB - Timothy P. Harrison and Celeste Barlow; IV.
Around the Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age; 10) Radiocarbon
Calibration in the East Mediterranean Region: The East Mediterranean
Radiocarbon Comparison Project and the Current State of Play - Sturt W.
Manning, Bernd Kromer, Sahra Talamo, Michael Friedrich, Peter Ian Kuniholm
and Maryanne W. Newton; 11) A Dendrochronological 14C Wiggle-match for the
Early Iron Age of North Greece: A Contribution to the Debate about this
Period in the Southern Levant. - Maryanne W. Newton, Peter Ian Kuniholm,
and Kenneth A. Wardle; 12) High Precision Dating and Archaeological
Chronologies: Revisiting an Old Problem - Sue Sherratt; V. Israel in the
Iron Age; 13) Ladder of Time at Tel Rehov: Stratigraphy, Archaeological
Context, Pottery and Radiocarbon Dates - Amihai Mazar, Hendrik J. Bruins,
Nava Panitz-Cohen and Johannes van der Plicht; 14) Quality Control of
Groningen 14C results from Tel Rehov: Repeatability and Intercomparison of
Proportional Gas Counting and AMS - Johannes van der Plicht and Hendrik
J.Bruins; 15) 14C Results from Megiddo, Tel Dor, Tel Rehov and Tel Hadar:
Where do They Lead Us? - Israel Finkelstein and Eli Piasetzky; 16) High or
Low: Megiddo and Rehov - Israel Finkelstein; 17) Correlation and
Chronology: Samaria and Megiddo Redux - Norma Franklin; 18) Iron-Age 14C
Dates from Tel Dan: A High Chronology - Hendrik J. Bruins, Johannes van der
Plicht, David Ilan & Ella Werker; 19) Iron I Chronology at Ashkelon:
Preliminary Results of the Leon levy Expedition - Daniel Master; 20) Desert
Settlement through the Iron Age: Radiocarbon Dates from Sinai and the Negev
Highlands - Hendrik J. Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht; VI. Historical
Considerations; 21) Stamp-seal amulets and Early Iron Age Chronology - An
Update - Stefan Munger; 22) Problems in the Paleographic Dating of
Inscriptions - William M. Schniedewind; 23) Some Methodological Reflections
on Chronology and History-Writing - William G. Dever; 24) David Did It -
Others Did Not: The Creation of Ancient Israel - Baruch Halpern; VII.
Conclusion; 25) The view from Mount Nebo - Andrew Sherratt